"Lady of the Night" | ||||
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![]() Dutch picture sleeve | ||||
Single by Donna Summer | ||||
from the album Lady of the Night | ||||
B-side | "Wounded" | |||
Released | November 1974 | |||
Genre | Pop [1] | |||
Length | 3:58 | |||
Label | Groovy | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | Bellotte | |||
Donna Summer singles chronology | ||||
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"Lady of the Night" is a song recorded by American singer Donna Summer for her self-titled debut studio album. The song was written by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and produced by the latter.
The song was released as the second single from the album in November 1974. The song "Wounded" was used as the B-side. In the Netherlands, "Lady of the Night" reached the fourth place. [2] In 1975, the song was released in West Germany, Austria and Belgium, in the latter countries the song also managed to get into the top ten. [3] [4] [5]
Christian John Wikane from PopMatters noted that the song featured Summer's bell-clear belt ringing high above the Phil Spector-styled wall of sound. [6] GQ's David Levesley, when compiling a list of Donna Summer's "songs that changed the way we dance", placed the song in second place and described it as "stone-cold objective bop" and added that "it's so Frankie Valli and yet has a sensibility completely different from anything you'd have found on Tin Pan Alley". [7]
Chart (1974–76) | Peak position |
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Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [3] | 6 |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [5] | 3 |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) [4] | 8 |
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [8] | 4 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [2] | 4 |
West Germany (GfK) [9] | 40 |
Chart (1974) | Position |
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Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [10] | 96 |
Chart (1975) | Position |
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Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [11] | 29 |
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [12] | 60 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [13] | 60 |
Chart (1976) | Position |
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Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [14] | 8 |